Barkhin, G[rigorii] B[orisovich].

[THEATRE ARCHITECTURE – CONSTRUCTIVISM] Arkhitektura teatra [Theatre architecture].

Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Akademii arkhitektury SSSR, 1947. Quarto (35.5 × 27 cm). Original embossed quarter cloth over boards; 245, [3] pp. Оver 330 illustrations in the text and on plates (one folding) after photographs, plans, elevations, engravings, technical charts. Light wear and scuffing to edges and corners; still about very good. Item #54725

A history and detailed technical analysis of the design and construction of theatrеs from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century, and across different countries and cultures, with the second part of the volume dedicated to Soviet theatre architecture from Constructivist to Stalinist Neoclassical designs. The volume features theatre designs from across the Soviet Union including the Constructivist designs of the Vesnin brothers for a theatre in Kharkiv (Ukraine), and the designs for the Red Army Theatre in Moscow by the team of father and son Grigorii and Mikhail Barkhin. These appear side-by-side with the Stalinist Neoclassical designs for the Bolshoi Theatre in Minsk (Belarus) designed by Noi Trotsky and the main theatre building for Tashkent (Uzbekistan) designed by Alexei Shchusev, with both Trotsky and Shchusev turning away from Constructivism in the late 1930s. The author of this volume, Russian and Soviet architect Grigorii Barkhin (1880–1969), was a member of the Moscow Architectural Society and part of the editorial board of the iconic “MAO Competitions,” an important compendium for avant-garde and Constructivist architecture of the 1920s. In addition to this monograph on theatres, Barkhin published one other monograph, “Worker housing and worker garden cities” (1922).